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The Anti-Sports Personality of the Year awards 2025
On Thursday night the BBC will honour the heroes. But here are the year’s best dark, devious and downright dumb sporting stories Another year, another raft of sporting cheating scandals for our annual anti‑Spoty awards. Where the BBC Sports Personality ceremony this week rewards the cream of athletic endeavour, the...
Undefeated boxing star Terence Crawford announces retirement at 38
Boxer hangs up gloves with remarkable 42-0 record Last fight was September domination of Canelo Álvarez Undefeated world super middleweight champion Terence Crawford announced his retirement from boxing on Tuesday, hanging up his gloves three months after a career-defining victory over Canelo Álvarez. The 38-year-old from Nebraska, who dominated Mexican...
World Cup countries Senegal and Côte d’Ivoire among additions to Trump travel ban
The two African nations join Haiti and Iran on ban list Fans may face restrictions when entering US A proclamation signed by President Trump widened his administration’s ongoing travel restrictions on Tuesday to include 2026 World Cup participants Côte d’Ivoire and Senegal. The two African nations were added to the...
Alex Carey’s sparkling century helps Australia recover from early England Ashes onslaught
Third Test, day one: Australia 326-8 Usman Khawaja digs in for 82 while Archer has 3-29 After the pandemonium of Perth and Brisbane’s pink-ball palooza came an outbreak of more familiar looking Test cricket at Adelaide Oval. For the locals it was one to savour as their boy, Alex Carey,...
Jockey Club behaves like old-style lord of the manor over secretive Kempton sale plans | Greg Wood
There is a hint of feudalism about the way the unelected body has treated those who love the track like its serfs It has taken the better part of a decade but the Jockey Club, the private, self-appointed body that has wielded immense power in racing for nearly 300 years,...
It’s Lionesses v Red Roses v Rory’s Europe as BBC names Spoty team of year shortlist
Public vote will decide winner among back-to-back European champions, Rugby World Cup winners and Team Europe England’s Lionesses are up against their rugby union counterparts, the Red Roses, and Europe’s winning Ryder Cup side on the shortlist for team of the year at the BBC’s Sports Personality of the Year...
England face daunting task as Ashes series resumes in shadow of tragedy
Sunday’s events in Bondi have stunned Australia and the watching world before a third Test that could be a decisive one for this England team’s legacy Adelaide may be 1,300km to the west of Bondi but the sense of pain in the city has been no less for the distance....
Manchester United and Bournemouth share thrills and spills in eight-goal extravaganza
From near-total control to collapse to late Bruno Fernandes and Matheus Cunha goals that seemed to put Manchester United on the right end of a 4-3 festive thriller. But then, yet more horrific defending allowed Eli Junior Kroupi, on as a substitute, to score Bournemouth’s third equaliser and the points...
By not explaining ‘worst 48 hours’ Enzo Maresca has put himself at even greater risk | Jacob Steinberg
Manager’s comments on Saturday have left Chelsea baffled and the Italian in danger If Enzo Maresca was interested in ending speculation that he has a problem with elements of Chelsea’s hierarchy then he would have done so on Monday . Instead the Italian made no attempt to clear up a...